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Interview Portuguese Spanish    
Year 4 - N° 168 – July 25, 2010
ORSON PETER CARRARA 
orsonpeter@yahoo.com.br 
Matão, São Paulo (Brasil)
Translation
Leonardo Rocha - leonardorocha89@aol.com

   
Márcio Peres Hungria:

“Spiritism had its genesis as a doctrine in the heart of family units”

Our companion from the State of Rio de Janeiro talks about
the Spiritist Centre Chico Xavier, recently founded
in the city of Niterói.

 

Márcio Peres Hungria is a spiritist lecturer and columnist, who was born to a spiritist family in Niterói. He tells us here about the spiritist centre he opened recently and his plans for the future. 

O Consolador: The spiritist movement has reason to celebrate the opening of yet another centre, in an tribute to the great medium Chico Xavier. Give us first the directions to the group. 

The Nucle Espirita Chico Xavier (NECX) is based in our home in Niterói – Rua Antonio Augusto da Paz, 60, Piratininga, Niteroi. You can get more information on the website:
http://necx-espiritismo.blogspot.com or phone us on + 55 21 88815709. 

O Consolador: How did you have the

idea of opening the group? 

It was an old project of my parents´, Fernando and Yeda Hungria, which comes from their first visits to the city of Uberaba, in the 1970´s, to the late friend and medium Chico Xavier. But the project really gained force once we began to have healing meetings at my brother´s home, from 2003, with the participation of the medium, Lívio Rocha Barbosa. In 2005, we began to have weekly meetings in my home to study The Spirits´Book and The Gospel According to Spiritism. Initially, it was only a meeting of family and friends. But the group grew, moved by the will to help, study and live the spiritist message. With a growing number of people who were keen to find out more about the Doctrine, we allocated an area in the house – the third floor – with some 60 seats, for the studies. Once we achieved our original goals – to understand and publicise the spiritist message – we decide to go one step further and create an official group. And I can only help the support of all of those involved in that process. 

O Consolador: Do you also carry out social and charity work, helping the poor in your area? 

A true spiritist institution must provide both spiritual and material assistance. The spiritist motto reads “there´s no salvation without charity”, and we certainly try to provide help. We have a Sewing Workshop, called Cidália Batista, where we make baby clothes, handing out around ten kits a month to local pregnant women, with all they will need for the newborn babies. 

O Consolador: What is your schedule of activities at the group? 

We had to adapt our schedule to the constraints of being in a residential zone. We have our study group on Sundays, lectures by spiritist speakers every two months, spiritual healings once a month and our sewing workshop every Friday. 

O Consolador: Have you been advised by your spiritual mentors on what activities to carry out? 

Not directly. However we know we have been guided and supported by the spiritual world in the big decisions. We´ve taken all the decisions in this group step by step, moving forward as we reached a new level and felt comfortable to face new challenges. 

O Consolador: How was the opening night of your group? 

It was a memorable night, on April 25th of this year. We had about 160 people in the main room and outside, where they followed the ceremony through a big screen. I highlight the presences of Eurípedes Higino dos Reis, the adoptive son of Chico Xavier; of the author Geraldo Lemos Neto; of Neuza de Assis, who also came from Uberaba; and of the choir Maria de Magdala, who harmonized the atmosphere with their beautiful voices. Geraldo Lemos Neto, or Geraldinho, spoke about the captivating personality of Chico Xavier and his vital role in the development of Spiritism. Eurípedes was interviewed by Yeda Hungria and told us anecdotes in the life of the great human being, Chico Xavier, highlighting his greatness of character. Yeda reminded us that Chico was about simplicity and humility and that his example should be followed by all spiritist groups, especially if they want to engage with the poorer extracts of our society. 

O Consolador: Any special meaning in the date you chose for the opening, 25th April? 

Absolutely. April is very special month for the world´s spiritist movement. We´re celebrating this year in Brazil what would be Chico Xavier 100th birthday, on April 2nd. That´s when he was born, as Francisco de Paula Cândido in the town of Pedro Leopoldo, in Minas Gerais. On April 1st 1858, we had the establishment of the first spiritist group anywhere in the world, the  SPEE (Parisian Society of Spiritist Studies). The first editon of The Spiritis´ Book was published on April 18th 1857. And the first edition of The Gospel According to Spiritism, still with its initial title of Imitation of the Gospel, was also published in April – on the 15th day of the month, in 1864. 

O Consolador: What are your plans for the future? 

We plan to set up regular study groups of the books written in trance by Chico Xavier, especially the series of books by Andre Luiz on the life in the spiritual world. We plan to record DVDs with the lectures we host every other month and distribute them free of charge. And we plan to set up groups of evangelical studies for children. 

O Consolador: What else would you like to add? 

Historically, Spiritism had its genesis at the heart of family units. Professor Rivail (AKA Allan Kardec) took part in several meetings at the homes of the Palinemaisons, the Baudins and the Roustans, before founding the SPEE, which became the example to follow for so many groups that would be set up in France and other countries. In the beginning of the twentieth century in Brazil, valuable hearts opened their homes for the study of Spiritism in the quiet of the night. Spiritism was then misunderstood and often attacked. Many of those family reunions became institutions that are still going on. Our group, NECX, has followed a similar path, moved by an ideal cultivated for a long time. 

O Consolador: Your final words, please. 

I would like to express my gratitude to all of those who took part, directly or indirectly, in realising this project. I’d like to thank my parents, relentless in their efforts to raise their family according to spiritist values, and a special thank you to my wife, Lucia, the determined companion of every hour.

 

 


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